Yeah, Google is still screwing you, and this is my post on WA lol . I just don't give a fuck anymore about what they think, I'll be gone when the subscription has ended anyway.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/lizken/blog/yeay-recovery-from-googles-update-euh-no
Let's see if they will keep my post lol
@Diane and @Partha, you guys were still so niiiice when you said goodbye hahahaha! I respect that 🤣 🤣
@ohnoo_not_her I wrote a very polite farewell post simply because I didn’t want it to get deleted!
I was hoping that some members would see it, and join this forum!
But, of course, it wasn’t allowed in the Top 10, lol.
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@ohnoo_not_her I wrote a very polite farewell post simply because I didn't want it to get deleted!
I was hoping that some members would see it, and join this forum!
But, of course, it wasn't allowed in the Top 10, lol.
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haha thought so, that wasn't an attack by the way ;-) Just for myself, I have nothing to lose or gain :-)
But .... but ...
Diane, how will you survive without
"Beer with Kyle" and posts like "This is how happy I am when my site is indexed in Google"
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As you say Lizzy ... WA need to up their game! (yes your post was still live when I checked!) and stop misleading newbies.
This just an observation on my own search habits, but I noticed recently that I no longer “google” for things. Is this just me, or is the world changing? More and more when I want answers I use AI or CoPilot. I don’t think I have used Google for several weeks! I think SEO has had it’s day!
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I don’t think I have used Google for several weeks!
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I think the tide is certainly on the turn. Especially with Chatty Search now on the scene. I think Alphabet's stock dropped 3% overnight as a direct result!
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This just an observation on my own search habits, but I noticed recently that I no longer “google” for things. Is this just me, or is the world changing? More and more when I want answers I use AI or CoPilot. I don’t think I have used Google for several weeks! I think SEO has had it’s day!
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SEO is definitely in its twilight.
But, one area where it will remain relevant is for real world businesses. Chatbots in their current state will never take the place of a basic search for services. If your car breaks down and you need to get it towed, nothing beats the search engine tracking your location and giving you all the information you need at once.
SEO is no longer viable in the long term as a lone marketing channel, but has its place as part of your suite of marketing channels that you use.
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Definitely yes, I didn't mention that in the post. If you can have a local business and a product that you can sell, SEO would still be valuable I think. (no expert here).
Reason why I have been thinking about buying my own lasercutting machine and dive into the world of creating my own laser-cut DIY book nook kit designs, and selling them on my site for a small market. Not even for profit (I've known a seller go down in selling those, once she got off Etsy), but to offer something that I can sell through my site. Google thinks this is looking more like a real brand (again, no expert here, just what I read on X lol). It seems that eccomerce sites , who also have a blog on their site, haven't been hit either.
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This just an observation on my own search habits, but I noticed recently that I no longer “google” for things. Is this just me, or is the world changing? More and more when I want answers I use AI or CoPilot. I don’t think I have used Google for several weeks! I think SEO has had it’s day!
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I still use google in Dutch or to look for keywords for my English site, but personally, hardly anymore indeed. But I'm "generation X", basically grew up with Facebook ahahahaha. Hiking trails? > facebook groups. "best things to do in South Africa?"=> facebook groups lol. I'm looking around for the laws in Belgium about tiny houses=> FB groups {blue}:smile:
@rohanm I, I will not go to that method.
My idea is different. I am not sure and really don´t know what to do with the site that was crushed in the so-called help update.
At the same time, it looks like new sites have some benefits at the start.
So, I had in mind starting a mini niche site, independent but using posts from my site and rewriting them to save time.
But we see.
@paule I don´t. I have seen to may fail of AI so I use Duckduckgo
@noteboom I was wondering if your Iceland site was written in English or in Icelandic? I have only 20 Dutch posts on my new Dutch site,and already seeing some clicks from Google (not connected to Google with GSC and probably never will).
I had the same idea, and just translated /rewritten/ shortened my zero-traffic English Africa site to a new domain, but in my own language and describing my own knowledge of certain countries I’ve been to and what I think is important to know. And it’s also niched down even more this time, because I have been to not-so touristic places. The original site was too competitive I think in English. It’s a good “train of thought” all of this. As we can see it from more angles than just one language. I find out that no one really thinks about this, not in the Dutch world, every language has its own “SEO"s” and they all look at it differently. It’s complicated 
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It's a good "train of thought" all of this.
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It's a great discussion :-) I'm interested in 'Regional' SEO although time + money does not allow for any indulgent SEO projects atm ... lol
I know there are quite a few Spanish only affiliate products, for example. I've often thought about translating to other languages and trying out these regional offers ... it'd be interesting to see what the competition is like!
For keyword research, the VPN is in order at that point!
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This just an observation on my own search habits, but I noticed recently that I no longer “google” for things. Is this just me, or is the world changing? More and more when I want answers I use AI or CoPilot. I don’t think I have used Google for several weeks! I think SEO has had it’s day!
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SEO is definitely in its twilight.
But, one area where it will remain relevant is for real world businesses. Chatbots in their current state will never take the place of a basic search for services. If your car breaks down and you need to get it towed, nothing beats the search engine tracking your location and giving you all the information you need at once.
SEO is no longer viable in the long term as a lone marketing channel, but has its place as part of your suite of marketing channels that you use.
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I do the same, but I use Facebook to search for locals.
@rohanm “ I’ve often thought about translating to other languages and trying out these regional offers”
If you do that, remember that tools like Google Translate are horrible in most languages.
Open AI is interesting as I can follow if they are good or bad from the start.
The Icelandic government has always been quick to defend the language, so they are very open-minded about software.
So they made a great contract (no money, benefits for both) stating that Icelandic would be the Open AI second language.
So I have seen that they do best about that and how they are developed.
They have developed fast, but even so, they are very bad. I hope that I don´t offend anyone, but English is a very simple language about grammar and vocabulary if you have many languages in mind.
For example, we have here in Iceland, I guess, 15 words for snow—probably more. In Greenland, they do not have the word snow! But it is a decent word over different snow like we have, just much more.
In Chech, I think you should remember that they greatly word over you. These is all things, and especially the grammar it, that Open AI doesn´t can do at the moment, and because of that it, Icelandic for example, is horrible.
I once heard that Google Translate was good in Spanish. I can speak it to talk on the telephone or travel, but it is far from good enough to judge that.
But I believe all of East Europe would be impossible, and for sure, many countries in Central Europe and North Europe.
One problem is that if the tools don´t understand words in the text, they just write what they think. I have seen this happen in Germany: there was a text about Par going out and buying an ice cream. Because the tool didn´t understand two words, they were suddenly on the airplane.
And I guess Icelanders are not the only ones who know what happened some years ago when you wrote a question about Justin Biber and translated that from English to Vietnam and back.
So you can easily offend a whole nation with it.
Here, we are trying as hard as we can to defend the language. For example, I, like most Icelanders, have no problem reading the text that was written here in 1100.
But simultaneously, it is horrible how many languages disappear every 3 years.
@ohnoo_not_her I have two sites, both in English. My Icelandic site is a travel site to Iceland (the volcanos always help me a lot, so if I just look at them from my balcony as I can see them all from it, I get some spirit ), and the other is a focused affiliate site for the USA.
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So you can easily offend a whole nation with it.
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🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Thanks for the feedback Jóhann, that's very good to know! I think Spanish is the 2nd most used language on the planet so maybe a good place to start.
Although, from what you're saying, it sounds like hiring a native Spanish speaker to proof read the output might be worthwhile. Then the project immediately starts costing more money!
I think I'll stick to the English reviews for now :-)
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I hope that I don´t offend anyone, but English is a very simple language about grammar and vocabulary
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Not offended here :-) In fact many Brits are a lot more simple than the language is and can barely string two words together, in my experience ...
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@rohanm I agree with @Noteboom, you can't just use Google Translate, it doesn't make any sense lol.
And your site would look very amateurish to the people reading it. On the contrary, no one on my Facebook page or groups or Pinterest or site or newsletter ever said anything about me being a non native English speaker.
Of course you guys here noticed that I'm not, that's because I'm just "chatting away" here, and don't care about my English on forums like this hahaha.
I can make a few grammar mistakes on videos and such, then people correct me, but that's good for engagement whahahaha!
I just answer them then: I speak 4 languages well and one language I can understand and speak a little ( I can have a normal conversation in Italian as well, just don't ask me to write it lol), and then I'm like : 'how many languages do you speak then'? Shuts them up 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
(Belgium officially has three languages, and English isn't even included in the official ones)
@partha Are you still active here Partha?
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